It is located at the Mississippi Test Facility (MTF) in Bay St. 

 Louis, Miss. 



In 1967 together with the Office of Naval Research, NDBO sponsor- 

 ed a Mooring Dynamics Experiment (MDE) conducted by the Charles Stark 

 Draper Laboratory at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF). 

 It is participating in the development of meteorological drifting 

 buoys to be used in the First Garp Global Experiment (FGGE) in 1979. 

 It was recently selected to investigate heat exchanger fouling aspects 

 of the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) project in the northern 

 Gulf of Mexico and is developing a buoy, known as OTEC-2, to be de- 

 ployed at the site. It operates a very large buoy as an Ocean Test 

 Platform (OTP) in the Gulf of Mexico where buoy subsystems and other 

 ocean engineering equipment are evaluated. 



It operates an extensive system of moored Environmental Buoys 

 (EB) in the U.S. offshore waters. Among the EB's are EEP's — Engineer- 

 ing Experimental Phases — an early developmental buoy; XERB — an Experi- 

 mental Environmental Research Buoy; PEB — a Prototype Environmental 

 Buoy; DOME — a Deep Ocean Moored Buoy; and CSD — a Continental Shelf 

 Discus buoy. Other buoy systems developed by NDBO include ADRAMS 

 Air Droppable Measurement System designed to allow remote tracking of 

 the nearshore ice pack in the Arctic; EGP — Experimental GOES Platform 

 developed to help evaluate the capabilities of ocean platforms to 

 communicate environmental data via the Geostationary Operational Envi- 

 ronmental Satellite (GOES); an AEB — Arctic Environmental Buoy, a re- 

 mote unattended system for data acquisition and telemetry designed 

 especially for harsh surface temperature extremes and installed in 

 support of the Arctic Ice Dynamics Experiment (AIDJEX) conducted by 

 the University of Washington. 



The larger environmental buoys are equipped with a Wave Data Ana- 

 lyzer (WDA). Another system mounted on EB's is the Water Quality 

 Indicator System (WQIS) designed to measure water quality at dump- 

 sites. 



The Ocean Instrumentation Engineering Office (OIEO) has its ante- 

 cedents in the National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center (NOIC), 

 a semiautonomous office transferred to NOAA' s National Ocean Survey 

 (NOS) in 1970 where it was abolished as a national center. OIEO and 

 several NOS branches assumed its functions. OIEO's responsibilities 

 include developing and implementing advanced programs in standards, 

 calibration, and testing, and it operates an instrumentation inform- 

 ation center. 



NOIC was instrumental in establishing the Northwest Regional 

 Calibration Center (NRCC), which is operated by the Oceanographic 

 Institute of Washington (State). 



373. OFFICE OF SEA GRANT: OSG 



Public Law 89-688, approved in 1966, created the Sea Grant (SG) 

 Program whose purpose is "to increase the understanding, assessment, 

 development, utilization, and conservation of the Nation's ocean and 

 coastal resources by providing assistance to promote a strong educa- 

 tional base, responsive research and training activities, and broad 

 dissemination of knowledge and techniques." Sea Grant was originally 

 administered by the National Science Foundation before its transfer 

 to NOAA. Sea Grant makes grants to institutions engaged in compre- 

 hensive marine research and education, to advisory service projects, 

 and to individual researchers. 



NOAA's National Marine Advisory Service (NMAS), also referred to 

 as MAS, was formed under the leadership of OSG, though it is respon- 

 sible to all of NOAA, Its fundamental concept is the local Marine 

 Advisory Program (MAP) conceived under OSG to bring information on 



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